This work presents three results in the area of non accelerator particle physics. The first topic details deep ocean background light studies and results from the first oceangoing muon tracking telescope capable of operation ...

The development 9f gas lasers has provided the experimental atomic physicist with a new tool for the selective probing of atomic energy levels. This dissertation describes the development of a gas laser system for the ...

A white light flare is a rare impulsive event observed in the visible continuum radiating from localized regions during the early explosive stage of a few solar flares. A self-consistent model is developed which attempts ...

Novel forms of carbon have attracted intense interest since the discovery of C60, a molecule with a spherical cage, and its solid form. In this dissertation, our research work on the generation and scanning tunneling ...

Models based upon pion-exchange and diffraction dissociation have been fitted to data from reactions of the type πˉp → Nucleon + kπ, 2 < k < 7 at 3.9 and 11.9 GeV/c incident momentum. These models, which include resonance ...

The production of band c quarks in QCD jets from pp collisions at √s=1.8 TeV is investigated using decays to muons and hadronic debris. The results are based on data collected at the DØ experiment during the 1992-1993 ...

We report measurements of branching fractions for charged and neutral B -> ncK decays, and determine the nc mass and width. The results are based on an analysis of 29.1 fb-1 of data collected by the Belle detector at KEKB. ...

This PhD dissertation is concerned with an experimental study of solid surfaces and interfaces. The electronic structure of magnesium hydride, chemisorption of oxygen or hydrogen on the Kg surface, and photoeffect of the ...

Data from the Haleakala Gamma-ray Observatory taken during 1987 and 1989 is searched for the presence of TeV Gamma-rays from r he direction of Hercules X-1. These two data sets were compiled on two different instruments: ...

Cygnus X-3 is an x-ray binary system approximately 10kpc away from the earth, lying in the plane of the galactic disc. Since the observation of intense radio jets emanating from the system, it has continued to confound ...